Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century: Becoming Modern, Going Global

Liam C. Kelley is an historian of Vietnam and Southeast Asia. His research and publications have focused on premodern Vietnamese history and the transition to modernity in the early twentieth century. For roughly the past decade, he has also co-organized the Engaging With Vietnam (EWV) conference series and in recent years has served as the editor for various publication projects emerging from EWV conferences, including the volume Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community (Springer, 2021).

Gerard Sasges is an historian of technology, development, and the environment, with a focus on Vietnam from 1900 to the present. His research uses non-Western histories of technology to reshape our understanding of development under capitalist and socialist regimes and its relationship to the environment and to lived experience. He has recently published a monograph entitled Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina (University of Hawaii Press, 2017).